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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by sergiotapia on Sunday May 17, 2020 @09:19PM (#23217201)
This sentiment is why I've moved to write Elixir code professionally three years ago, and why I write Nim for all my personal projects now. I want to minimize bloat and squeeze out performance from these amazing machines we are spoiled with these days.

A few years ago I read about a developer that worked on a piece-o-shit 11 year old laptop, he made his software run fast there. By doing that, his software was screaming fast on modern hardware.

It's our responsibility to minimize our carbon footprint.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by entha_saava on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:27PM (#23218009)
Some of blame is to be put on modern development environments that pretty much require the latest best hardware to run smoothly.

> It's our responsibility to minimize our carbon footprint.

This, a hundred times.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps? by SomeoneFromCA on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:36AM (#23222816)
My normal work computer is a Sandy Bridge Celeron laptop. I might need to upgrade it soon, but I'd still prefer something underpowered for exactly same reason; perhaps I'll purchase an Athlon 3000 desktop.
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